BWell Blog

Last March, I found myself alone in my garage staring at an old set of dumbbells trying to figure out how I was going to stay motivated and consistent with movement and exercise.  For over a decade, I’d depended on the energy and peer pressure (the good kind) of a fitness community.  Whenever we are called to create a new way of doing something, we are being invited to learn.  In reflection of the...

“Wishing you a day of remaining in the moment.  Not the past or future or story.  Not your thoughts or anxieties or lists.  But right here.  Right now.  Straight into the center.”  -Victoria Erickson.

There have been a few small changes since March and much remains the same.  Dare I say we have found a groove resembling what feels “normal”?  We reach for masks and our car keys when we leave the h...

She was coaching me when she said it and I haven’t stopped thinking about it ever since.  Crowding out, what a powerful concept, a perfect beginning to the journey.   I was on a call yesterday with a good friend of mine for nutrition consulting.  In nutrition/diet context, “crowding out” is the idea that if we begin adding more of the good things into our diet, versus wrestling with pulling out th...

[maximize] PERSONAL CAPACITY:  Meet yourself wherever you are.  Each of us has a threshold for managing difficult times based on our emotional and physical capacity.  Our ability to navigate challenge is often shaped by past experience, prior learning and adaptation of tools and practices, and greatly influenced by the responsibilities of our personal circumstance.  There is no better time to adop...